<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # The Manhattan Project was a project. AI is... > The Manhattan Project was a project. AI is becoming an industrial metabolism. When civilization starts pouring capital, electricity, concrete, copper, silicon, laboratories, transmission lines, nuclear plants, and entire careers into something at this velocity, perhaps stop pretending the objective is a better chatbot. The answer is proportional to the mass of the endeavor. Whatever this is, it is a species-level event. **Source:** [[articles/AI-Tech Doomerism and Anti-Science Panic|AI-Tech Doomerism, Anti-Science Panic, those Who Sell Technological Exile]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “The Manhattan Project was a project. AI is becoming an industrial metabolism. When civilization starts pouring capital, electricity, concrete, copper, silicon, laboratories, transmission lines, nuclear plants, and entire careers into something at this velocity, perhaps stop pretending the objective is a better chatbot. The answer is proportional to the mass of the endeavor. Whatever this is, it is a species-level event.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-manhattan-project-project-species-level-event ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->